Janá ek?s 2nd String Quartet Intimate Letters is regarded as a highlight of the modern string quartet literature. It was written during the composer?s last year of life between 29 January and 19 February 1928 inspired by the ageing Janáèek?s exceptional love for Kamila Stösslová. The Moravian Quartet devoted themselves to this impressive work; Janá ek attended a total of three of their rehearsals in May and June 1928. This had several consequences including his abandoning his original idea of using a viola d?amore. After Janá ek?s unexpected death (12 August 1928) the uncertain genesis of the work became the greatest problem of the IntimateLetters : the surviving copies were not definitively authorised. The editors of this new edition have reverted to Janá ek?s autograph sketches as the main most reliable source and using these as a basis have reconstructed the work as it stood at the point of Janá ek?s death. The musical text taken from the Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leo? Janá ek (Vol. E/4) therefore contains clear differences in comparison with older editions.

True Love (Laska opravdiva) Written in 1875/1876 this 2 minute work is scored for male chorus (TTBB) and based on texts from Slovak folk poetry.

Three novel-like scenes by Fedora Bartosova-First critical edition of this Opera.Foreword on the genesis of the work and its reception by Ji Zahrádka (Cz/Eng/Ger).New straightforward Piano reduction by Rasmus Baumann.Performance material available on hire. Janá ek?s Opera Osud is an extraordinary example of the creative boldness of the composer and presents demanding dramaturgical challenges. This new critical edition is based on a thorough comparison of all surviving sources. The principle source is a copyist?s copy of authorised by Janá ek in which all revisions are marked. Further sources include a manuscript copy of the vocal score together withthe orchestral parts and various copies of the libretto. The score of this new edition will be published as part of the Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leo? Janá ek.

The composition ?1.X.1905 ? generally referred to as a ?sonata ? stems from the autumn of 1905 the peak of the riots between the Czech- and German-speaking populations in Janá ek?s hometown Brno. Reacting to the violent death of a Czech worker Janá ek wrote a three-part composition for Piano originally bearing the title ?From the Street on October 1 1905.? Dissatisfied with the work however Janá ek is said to have first burned the third movement in his fireplace and then thrown the remaining two movements into the Vltava even before its premiere. A copy of these first two movements on which thepublication of the first edition was later based is also missing today. For this reason the Urtext edition of G. Henle Publishers and Universal Edition is based solely on the first edition from 1924 which Janá ek expert Ji Zahrádka has carefully evaluated and annotated for this volume.

This piece reflects Janácek's memories of childhood and youth in his native Hukvaldy and the Augustinian Abbey in Brno. Kry?tof Maratka, a Czech composer resident in France and a great admirer of Janácek, has arranged the original version to produce a welcome addition to the string quartet repertoire.Youth for wind sextet, is a masterpiece from Janácek's late period (1924). Maratka has successfully managed to transform the concise winds' sound that give this work its unique flavour into the timbre of the strings, thereby creating a 'third string quartet? of the composer.- Janácek's wind sextet arranged for string quartet- Welcome addition to the string quartet repertoire- Foreword by the arranger (Cz/Eng/Ger) / Quatuor A Cordes